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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:52 pm    Post subject: 49 Woodie Wagon Reply with quote

I have a 1949 Streamliner wooden wagon and I don't believe many were made before Pontiac switched over to "Tin Woody" Construction midyear. Does anyone know where to get production numbers for this model? The Style number designation page shows them as 2561 and 2561D.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:30 pm    Post subject: 1949 Woodie Reply with quote

The 2561 style number was used for both 6 and 8 cylinder wood body wagons, which was odd. For most of Pontiac's earlier years 6s and 8s carried different body numbers. The "D" refers to Deluxe.

Sadly, Pontiac was horrible about keeping production records. For 1949 they only kept total numbers for all sixes (69,654) and eights (235,165). No other breakdowns are available other than standard transmission vs. Hydra-Matic. They didn't start keeping accurate model breakdown numbers until 1955.

If you check John Gunnell's book "75 Years of Pontiac Oakland" (long out of print), he states that for the "General" automotive marketplace for 1949, the station wagon body style accounted for 2.2% of cars sold. While that may or may not directly apply to Pontiac, it has to be a close indicator of wagon popularity and sales. So, using 2.2% against the totals shown above would yield 6,706 wagons (possibly) built.

If half were wood and the other half steel, that would be 3,353 of each. Now, if we use the "possibly 10% could still survive" rule, we get a possibility of 335 wagons of each still left. However, being the way woodies rotted away, I bet there are far less than that number still left. Are 100 '49 wood wagons left? I bet not even that many!

Good luck with a cool, rare old Pontiac!

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:50 pm    Post subject: 49 Woodie Wagon Reply with quote

Thanks Larry, I'm looking for information from everywhere and this helps. As far as the rarity goes this source says there were only 1000 Pontiac wagons made of both wood and Tin woody types in 1949.
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1949-pontiac-streamliner-wood-body-wagon.htm
I do know that the National Woodie Club says there are only 4 known survivors in their records. Who knows? There may be more out there in a barn somewhere. Thanks for taking the time to look it up.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:43 pm    Post subject: 1949 Woodie Reply with quote

Depending on when the production switched would make a huge difference on how many real wood wagons were built. I just divided total possible quantity of wagons, wood vs. metal, in half. If we knew that wood stopped real early, perhaps only a 1000 were made. I have no idea who would have that information (if it did or still exists).
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